Keywords
citrus
Central Florida
budgeting
costs and returns
How to Cite
Abstract
Estimated costs and returns of growing round oranges in the Central Florida citrus area are presented for the twentieth consecutive year. Due to the freezes of the 1980s, the Central Florida citrus area refers primarily to Polk and Highlands Counties. The format presented may be used by individual growers to budget costs and returns, utilizing individual data on specific groves. September 2004.
References
Citrus Summary 2002-03. 2003. Florida Agricultural Statistics Service, Orlando, FL. http://www.nass.usda.gov/fl.
Muraro, Ronald P. 2004. A Listing of Estimated Comparative Central Florida (Ridge) Citrus Production Costs Per Acre for 2003-04. CREC Report, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL (July).
Estimated Cost of Planting and Maintaining a Reset Citrus Tree through Three Years of Age. CREC Report, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL (July).
A Listing of 2004 Custom Rates Reported by Twenty-Eight Ridge Citrus Caretakers. CREC Report, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL (July).
Savage, Zach. 1960. Citrus Yields Per Tree Age. UF Agricultural Extension Service Staff Paper SP60-8, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Timmer, L.W., editor. 2004. 2004 Florida Citrus Pest Management Guide. Florida Cooperative Extension Service Staff Paper SP43, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 150pp (January).
Tucker, D. P.H., A.K. Alva, L.K. Jackson, and T.A. Wheaton (editors). 1995. Nutrition of Florida Citrus Trees. Florida Cooperative Extension Service Staff Paper SP169, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 61pp.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.